The Health of Your Herd Starts with Ewe!

Give them the best possible chance with Caprine & Ewe Veterinary Consulting

Small ruminant & camelid veterinary services

Caprine & Ewe Veterinary Consulting offers full service mobile veterinary care for all farm animals including goats, sheep, llamas and alpacas.

Herd Health/Preventative Care

  • Annual (bi-annual) physical exams

  • Disease diagnosis and herd management

  • Health certifications (CVIs) for travel/pre-purchase/exhibition/show

  • Individualized vaccination plans based on risk of exposure

  • Biosecurity/health screening (new herd additions/yearly testing)

  • Integrative parasite management (based on pasture management, quantitative fecal egg counts, individual risk/FAMACHA, stage of lactation and known resistance patterns in MI.

  • Corrective & routine hoof trimming

Reproductive Management & Medicine

  • Trans-cervical Artificial Insemination (Dairy Goats)

  • Laparoscopic Artificial Insemination (Dairy Goats, Meat Goats, Sheep & Deer)

  • Embryo Flushing & Transfer (Coming Soon)

  • Dystocia management (See Emergency Call policy below)

  • Buck/ram breeding soundness exams (including semen evaluation)

  • Customized estrus synchronization protocols to facilitate timed AI/live cover

  • Reproductive evaluation for failure to conceive or sustain a pregnancy (physical exam, cervical evaluation, & ultrasound)

  • Abortion evaluation - including on-farm necropsy, serology (blood testing) and individualized prevention plan.

Neonatal (lamb/kid/cria) Management

  • Failure to thrive evaluation & treatment

  • Colostrum supplementation

  • Enteral nutrition support/tube feeding

  • Intensive care & transfusion support

Lab Services

  • Bloodwork (in-house & external lab)

  • Necropsy (on-farm/MSU DCPAH submission)

  • Sample submission to fully accredited veterinary diagnostic labs (WADDL, Cornell, & MSU)

  • Fecal exams (McMaster’s fecal egg count)

Surgery Services

  • Disbudding (removal of horn buds - ideal timing 5-7 days after birth)

  • Dehorning (for kids > 2 weeks of age)

  • C-sections, cryptorchid repairs, castrations, vasectomies, mass removals, etc.

Emergency Care

Established Clients: Urgent (same day) and emergency services (weekends and nights) will be provided to clients whenever possible.

Non-clients/lapsed clients: Emergency cases may be seen based on Dr. Holahan's availability. Dr. Holahan shares emergency coverage with other veterinarians and makes arrangements to ensure that care is available to her current clients when she is not immediately available. Emergency care cannot be guaranteed for non-clients, in order to maintain adequate coverage for our established patients. For both established and non-clients, urgent and emergency services will come with an additional $50 and $125 fee respectively.

For the purposes of emergency care, clients are considered current if they have been seen for scheduled, non-emergent care and preventative medicine within the past 12 months.

Telemedicine Consults

For non-emergency consultation, we offer zoom meetings to discuss topics regarding herd health issues, general nutrition and feeding programs, vaccination, reproductive concerns, parasite control, milk sanitation protocols, bio-security screening for new herd additions/herd sires, etc. ​ Schedule a Telemedicine Consult

Take the first step to a healthy herd and establish care with a small ruminant veterinarian now.